Explore World’s Top 100 Photographers
Photographers in this exclusive list are those whose work we wish we could rank one of the highest positions in the world of photography. They are genuine photographers and their works have been showcasing in our vast photographic network since the beginning of Light & Composition.
Dedicated to the Purist Vision of Photography
To get into the top 100 photographers list, photographers work hard continuously with our strict principles of art, which are the guidelines that help others appreciate art more deeply. It is this principle that makes Light & Composition one of the biggest photographic organizations in the world, along with its most prestigious photography award, books, magazines, research works, and university.
🥇 The Triumph of Pure Artistry
Top honors are earned not simply by submission volume, but through transcendent vision. Photographers who consistently win Photo of the Month against all monthly contenders represent the pinnacle of photographic mastery.
✨ The Resonance of Human Emotion
Every photograph carries a soul. Our evaluation honors both rigorous academic scoring by master juries (80 pts) and the genuine resonance of hearts touched across our global network (20 pts).
🕊️ An Uncompromising Standard
In an era of artificial manipulation, these laureates preserve the sacred, unedited optical truth—capturing light, perspective, and fleeting human moments directly in-camera without software alteration.
The Master Artisans of Photography
These master photographers lead the world with the highest number of Photo of the Month victories, consistent high jury marks, and an uncompromising devotion to authentic, unaltered visual poetry.
Shahnaz Parvin
Shahnaz Parvin was an Award-Winning Photo Journalist. She was a passionate Bangalee, and used to reside in Bangladesh, until she passed away at the age of...
Shirren Lim
Shirren Lim is a Malaysian photographer living in Jakarta, Indonesia. She took up photography in 2009, as she thought it would be an interesting habit, later...
Ryszard Wierzbicki
Ryszard Wierzbicki is a Polish-born photographer and visual storyteller based in the United Kingdom. His work has been shaped by extensive travel, especially in South-East Asia,...
Saniar Rahman Rahul
Saniar Rahman Rahul was the first winner for ‘Photo of the Month Award’ in June 2010. With his amazing sense of wildlife photography he joined Light...
Kirsten Bruening
Kirsten Bruening is an award-winning professional photographer. She lives with her family near Cologne. Her passion for photography started when she was a child. Kirsten's father...
Jabbar Jamil
Jabbar Jamil is a street photographer based in Sialkot. Street photography gives him opportunity to leave his comfort zone and connect with the outside world; it...
Siew Bee Lim
Born in 1965 in Singapore, photography was one of the old hobbies of Siew Bee Lim. Now she would like to learn it formally via Light...
Zara Otaifah
Based in Parker, Colorado, Zara Otaifah. is the photographer behind Zara Photo Factory, serving clients throughout Denver and beyond. Drawing from her perspective as an immigrant...
Leanne Lindsay
Born in Adelaide in 1962, Leanne Lindsay's family moved to Sydney when she was 12 years old. She was gifted her first camera for her 21st...
Ronnie Glover
Photography took a backseat while Ronnie obtained his college degree. After graduation, he purchased his first camera but was unable to produce the images that he...
Let's Explore the Emotional Bonding That Photographers Create
Exploring the work of top photographers lets you understand how diverse people see the world differently, communicating with their unique perspective and creating deep emotional connections through pure light.
| Rank | Photographer Name | Location / Origin | POTM Podiums (1st / 2nd / 3rd) | Total Awards | Top Score | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #11 | Keith Goldstein | New York, USA | 🏆 2 / 5 / 3 | 44 Wins | 83.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #12 | Tisha Clinkenbeard | Schulenburg, USA | 🏆 2 / 4 / 2 | 70 Wins | 84.3 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #13 | Claudio Bacinello | Thornhill, Canada | 🏆 5 / 1 / 1 | 18 Wins | 84.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #14 | Fidan Nazim Qizi | Baku, Azerbaijan | 🏆 4 / 0 / 2 | 51 Wins | 79 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #15 | Lavi Dhurve | Indore, India | 🏆 3 / 2 / 1 | 39 Wins | 81.9 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #16 | Sergiy Kadulin | Kyiv, Ukraine | 🏆 4 / 0 / 1 | 31 Wins | 84.6 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #17 | Jose Juniel Rivera-Negron | New Jersey, the United States | 🏆 2 / 2 / 1 | 60 Wins | 81.6 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #18 | Sanjoy Sengupta | Muscat, Oman | 🏆 2 / 3 / 1 | 34 Wins | 82.6 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #19 | Moslem Azimi | Javanrud, Iran | 🏆 1 / 4 / 2 | 24 Wins | 81.4 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #20 | Anastasia Markus | Beer Sheva, Israel | 🏆 3 / 1 / 1 | 15 Wins | 80.7 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #21 | Silvia Bukovac Gasevic | Brussels, Belgium | 🏆 2 / 2 / 1 | 27 Wins | 79.6 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #22 | Diep Tran | Brisbane, Australia | 🏆 1 / 2 / 2 | 37 Wins | 81 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #23 | Martin Meyer | Cape Town, South Africa | 🏆 3 / 0 / 1 | 8 Wins | 82.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #24 | Ola Cedell | Malmo, Sweden | 🏆 1 / 2 / 1 | 37 Wins | 81.6 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #25 | Mehmet Masum | Diyarbakir, Turkey | 🏆 2 / 0 / 2 | 26 Wins | 84.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
Let's Explore the Work of Genuine Photographers, the Artisans of the Moment
Each genuine photograph is different, and each often represents the uniqueness of a photographer. Sharing the photographer’s genuine work is an integral part of art that will never become passé; this is what makes Light & Composition special.
| Rank | Photographer | Origin | POTM Podiums (1st/2nd/3rd) | Awards Won | Top Score | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #26 | Karthick Saravanan | Chennai, India | 🏆 1 / 2 / 1 | 33 Wins | 77 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #27 | Rob van der Waal | Hellevoetsluis, The Netherlands | 🏆 1 / 2 / 3 | 17 Wins | 81.7 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #28 | Tanmoy Saha | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 🏆 1 / 1 / 1 | 45 Wins | 81.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #29 | Agnieszka Bodes | Ottawa, Canada | 🏆 2 / 1 / 1 | 10 Wins | 81.3 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #30 | Rodrigo Aliaga | La Paz, Bolivia | 🏆 1 / 2 / 1 | 23 Wins | 77.5 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #31 | Nilla Palmer | Cosenza, Italy | 🏆 1 / 1 / 2 | 29 Wins | 85.3 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #32 | Catherine Ferraz | St. John's, Antigua | 🏆 1 / 2 / 1 | 20 Wins | 78 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #33 | Laria Saunders | San Miguel de Allende, Mexico | 🏆 2 / 0 / 1 | 17 Wins | 83.8 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #34 | Bashar Alaeddin | Amman, Jordan | 🏆 1 / 1 / 2 | 24 Wins | 82.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #35 | Ravikumar Jambunathan | Singapore, Singapore | 🏆 2 / 1 / 0 | 6 Wins | 79.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #36 | Derya Yazar Atasever | Nevsehir, Turkey | 🏆 2 / 1 / 0 | 6 Wins | 79.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #37 | Natalia Zotova | Chiang Mai, Thailand | 🏆 2 / 0 / 2 | 6 Wins | 77.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #38 | Laura Marchetti | Syracuse, Italy | 🏆 2 / 1 / 0 | 5 Wins | 75.9 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #39 | Minh Nghia Le | Singapore | 🏆 1 / 1 / 1 | 20 Wins | 84.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #40 | Sarvenaz Rafieepour | Tehran, Iran | 🏆 2 / 0 / 1 | 3 Wins | 81.2 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #41 | José J. Rivera-Negrón | Tampa, Florida, USA | 🏆 1 / 1 / 0 | 53 Wins | 72.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #42 | Sarvenaz Saadat | Karaj, Iran | 🏆 0 / 2 / 2 | 25 Wins | 78.5 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #43 | Ismawan Ismail | Indonesia | 🏆 1 / 2 / 0 | 7 Wins | 86.9 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #44 | Syed Asir Ha-Mim Brinto | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 🏆 1 / 1 / 1 | 9 Wins | 77.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #45 | Mazhar Hossain | Toronto, Canada | 🏆 1 / 1 / 0 | 15 Wins | 81.5 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #46 | Kristian Bertel | Aarhus, Denmark | 🏆 1 / 1 / 0 | 13 Wins | 82 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #47 | Patricia Saraiva | Belo Horizonte, Brazil | 🏆 0 / 1 / 1 | 37 Wins | 82.2 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #48 | Shovan Acharyya | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 🏆 1 / 0 / 2 | 14 Wins | 78.4 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #49 | Aleksey Kogan | Nizhny Novgorod, Russia | 🏆 1 / 1 / 1 | 4 Wins | 80 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #50 | Andrea Migliari | Treviglio, Italy | 🏆 1 / 1 / 0 | 11 Wins | 83.6 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #51 | Bartłomiej Śnierzyński | Poznań, Poland | 🏆 1 / 1 / 1 | 5 Wins | 79 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #52 | Dipanjan Mitra | Calcutta, India | 🏆 1 / 0 / 1 | 18 Wins | 82.9 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #53 | Steve Hirsch | Columbus, USA | 🏆 1 / 1 / 0 | 9 Wins | 82.8 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #54 | Nirupam Roy | Tufanganj, India | 🏆 0 / 0 / 0 | 58 Wins | 79.7 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #55 | Orhan Aksel | Istanbul, Turkey | 🏆 1 / 1 / 0 | 8 Wins | 84.6 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #56 | Sudeep Mehta | Mumbai, India | 🏆 1 / 0 / 1 | 18 Wins | 84.5 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #57 | Karan Zadoo | Delhi, India | 🏆 1 / 0 / 1 | 16 Wins | 81.8 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #58 | Mirka Krivankova | Mestec Kralove, Czech Republic | 🏆 0 / 1 / 1 | 35 Wins | 78.3 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #59 | Oscar Garcia | Houston, USA | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 23 Wins | 82.4 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #60 | Rasha Rashad | Alexandria, Egypt | 🏆 0 / 2 / 0 | 22 Wins | 80.5 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #61 | Manon Mathieu | New Zealand | 🏆 1 / 1 / 0 | 7 Wins | 80.9 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #62 | Mauro Squiz Daviddi | Ozzano dell’Emilia, Italy | 🏆 0 / 3 / 0 | 6 Wins | 83.5 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #63 | Barry Cawston | Axbridge, UK | 🏆 1 / 1 / 0 | 5 Wins | 83 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #64 | Sourav Das | Kolaghat, India | 🏆 1 / 1 / 0 | 6 Wins | 80.5 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #65 | Pedro Pio | Madrid, España | 🏆 1 / 1 / 0 | 5 Wins | 80.3 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #66 | Luca Renoldi | Monza, Italy | 🏆 1 / 0 / 1 | 12 Wins | 86.8 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #67 | Joaquín Alonso Arellano Ramírez | Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico | 🏆 0 / 2 / 0 | 19 Wins | 85.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #68 | Yousef Deeb | Gaza, Palestine | 🏆 1 / 1 / 0 | 3 Wins | 83.6 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #69 | Bilal Mahaboob Ali | T.N Palayam, Bahoor, Pondicherry, India | 🏆 1 / 1 / 0 | 3 Wins | 81.2 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #70 | Adriaan Pretorius | Kuwait | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 19 Wins | 80.4 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #71 | Liton Chowdhury | Kolkata, India | 🏆 1 / 0 / 1 | 9 Wins | 82.9 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #72 | Fatemeh Tajik | Iran | 🏆 0 / 2 / 1 | 9 Wins | 79.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #73 | Hanks Tseng | Taoyuan, Taiwan | 🏆 0 / 2 / 1 | 7 Wins | 80.7 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #74 | Sandra Frimpong | Campania, Italy | 🏆 0 / 1 / 1 | 23 Wins | 83.6 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #75 | Abdellah Azizi | Ouarzazate, Morocco | 🏆 0 / 2 / 0 | 14 Wins | 82.5 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #76 | Cameron Cope | Melbourne, Australia | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 12 Wins | 89.8 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #77 | Keshia Sophia | Galway, Ireland | 🏆 0 / 1 / 3 | 8 Wins | 77.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #78 | Ilyas Yilmaz | Gaziantep, Turkey | 🏆 1 / 0 / 1 | 6 Wins | 77.9 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #79 | Aarthi Ramamurthy | Las Vegas, Nevada, The United States | 🏆 1 / 0 / 1 | 3 Wins | 84.2 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #80 | Ali Berrada | Casablanca, Morocco | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 10 Wins | 85 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #81 | Keyvan Kiani Servak | Yasuj, Iran | 🏆 1 / 0 / 1 | 2 Wins | 82.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #82 | Anjan Patra | New Delhi, India | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 8 Wins | 80.3 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #83 | Phillip Biboso | Koronadal City, Philippines | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 6 Wins | 86.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #84 | Fatemeh Pishkhan | Isfahan, Iran | 🏆 0 / 2 / 0 | 6 Wins | 80.9 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #85 | Rafal Ostapiuk | Sochaczew, Poland | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 6 Wins | 79.6 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #86 | Sharad Patel | New York, USA | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 5 Wins | 84.4 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #87 | Hanan AboRegela | Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia | 🏆 0 / 1 / 1 | 14 Wins | 78.8 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #88 | Mercedes Noriega | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 4 Wins | 85.8 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #89 | Ana Sylvia Encinas | Hermosillo, Mexico | 🏆 0 / 1 / 0 | 20 Wins | 79.2 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #90 | Marianne Vahl | Oslo, Norway | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 5 Wins | 81.9 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #91 | Rezwan Razzaq | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 4 Wins | 82.5 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #92 | Daniel Schnyder | Bévilard, Switzerland | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 4 Wins | 83.3 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #93 | Mike Criss | Wasilla, USA | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 2 Wins | 89.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #94 | Michiko Matsumoto | Tokyo, Japan | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 1 Wins | 88.1 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #95 | Daniele Leone | Lecce, Italy | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 4 Wins | 78.9 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #96 | Sukesh Kumar | New York, USA | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 3 Wins | 83.6 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #97 | Natalia Torrealba | Coro, Venezuela | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 1 Wins | 87.2 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #98 | Sarthak Pattanaik | Cuttack, India | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 3 Wins | 81 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #99 | Fadil Muhammad Aulia | Yogyakarta, Indonesia | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 1 Wins | 86.4 / 100 | View Profile → |
| #100 | Morris Hilarian | Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia | 🏆 1 / 0 / 0 | 3 Wins | 80.7 / 100 | View Profile → |
How to Qualify for the World's Top 100
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